REPORTED TURKISH OFFER TO RUSSIA
I OPENING OF THE DARDANELLES TO RUSSIA. A GERMAIN PROMPTED MOVE. v (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 14. 8.18 a.m.} ROME, May 13. It is reported that Turkey, tnrough a neutral country, offered Russia a separate peace on "the basis of opening the Straits to Russian merchantmen, navy, :and- army, and the Turkish evacuation of ArmeniiThe Russian Provisional. Government refused' to negotiate. ~ , '. .. It is believed that the move was suggested by Germany in the hope of increasing the confusion of Russian.. public opinion, . y. '"-..,
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Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 5
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